Naganori Ito
| Naganori Ito 伊藤 修令 |
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Naganori Ito at the Prince & Skyline Museum in Okaya, Nagano on Sept. 1, 2013.
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7 March 1937 Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | Hiroshima University |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Mechanical engineering |
| Projects | Nissan Skyline (R32) |
Naganori Ito (伊藤 修令 Itō Naganori?, born 1937) is a Japanese automotive engineer, and was responsible for the development of the eighth generation R32 Nissan Skyline including the BNR32 Skyline GT-R.
Ito was born in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture on March 7, 1937 as a son of a rice store owner. He graduated from Hiroshima University in March 1959 and joined Fuji Precision Industries (later Prince Motor Company). In April 1959, he was assigned to the development of the chassis of the first and the second generations Skylines ALSI and S50. After the merger of Prince and Nissan, he was involved in the development of Skyline series, Laurel and Leopard F30. After January 1982, he became the chief engineer of Nissan Prairie (M10) and Nissan March (Micra) K10.
In 1984, Shinichiro Sakurai, Ito’s longtime “teacher” since he joined Fuji Precision/Prince, became ill and had to stay at the hospital for a while. Sakurai’s “No. 1 student” Ito was suddenly assigned to complete the design of the seventh generation R31 Skyline which Sakurai was responsible for. But the only thing Ito did about the R31 was preparing and submitting the model registration documents to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
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